Bente

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Bente: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Bente: Recorded since 1945, it reached #2 in 1955, and it was last ranked in 2011.

2registrars recorded it
62times a registrar ranked it
67years from first to last
#2highest recorded position
21groupings it qualifies for
11names it appears alongside

What stands out in Bente's record

Held a top-100 place for 41 years running. Names by top-100 run
Shares a published list with another name across 61 years. Longest shared records

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2004

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2004	#4598

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 61 of the 67 years from 1945 to 2011.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2011 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #66 among girls in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1945–2011
Highest recorded position: #2 among girls in Norway, in 1955 (recorded 1945–2011).
Norway · Girls
Most recent2011
Most recently recorded at #568 among girls in Norway, in 2011.
Norway · Girls

Bente by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Bente in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	761	5 of 10	152
1950s	6,057	10 of 10	606
1960sbusiest	6,207	10 of 10	621
1970s	2,790	10 of 10	279
1980s	874	10 of 10	87
1990s	216	10 of 10	22
2000s	27	5 of 10	5
2010s	4	1 of 10	4

Across Norway · Girls, the 1960s were its busiest decade, averaging 621 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1954 and 1955, when recorded births rose by 174, from 631 to 805.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Bente appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #2 in Norway in 1962.

Bente's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2004	England and Wales	female	#4598	3	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#568	4	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#587	4	High	Verified
2006	Norway	female	#589	4	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#583	4	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#443	7	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#410	8	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#338	11	High	Verified
1998	Norway	female	#300	13	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#260	16	High	Verified
1996	Norway	female	#397	9	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#206	26	High	Verified
1994	Norway	female	#194	29	High	Verified
1993	Norway	female	#214	27	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#240	21	High	Verified
1991	Norway	female	#202	30	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#182	34	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#161	43	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#132	56	High	Verified
1987	Norway	female	#111	64	High	Verified
1986	Norway	female	#110	64	High	Verified
1985	Norway	female	#98	72	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#78	96	High	Verified
1983	Norway	female	#61	110	High	Verified
1982	Norway	female	#62	111	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#56	134	High	Verified
1980	Norway	female	#58	124	High	Verified
1979	Norway	female	#46	153	High	Verified
1978	Norway	female	#44	149	High	Verified
1977	Norway	female	#33	181	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#39	180	High	Verified
1975	Norway	female	#22	254	High	Verified
1974	Norway	female	#23	272	High	Verified
1973	Norway	female	#21	304	High	Verified
1972	Norway	female	#14	412	High	Verified
1971	Norway	female	#12	436	High	Verified
1970	Norway	female	#13	449	High	Verified
1969	Norway	female	#11	490	High	Verified
1968	Norway	female	#8	626	High	Verified
1967	Norway	female	#5	630	High	Verified
1966	Norway	female	#5	622	High	Verified
1965	Norway	female	#5	645	High	Verified
1964	Norway	female	#5	632	High	Verified
1963	Norway	female	#8	562	High	Verified
1962	Norway	female	#2	635	High	Verified
1961	Norway	female	#2	651	High	Verified
1960	Norway	female	#2	714	High	Verified
1959	Norway	female	#2	712	High	Verified
1958	Norway	female	#2	772	High	Verified
1957	Norway	female	#3	749	High	Verified
1956	Norway	female	#2	811	High	Verified
1955	Norway	female	#2	805	High	Verified
1954	Norway	female	#6	631	High	Verified
1953	Norway	female	#6	543	High	Verified
1952	Norway	female	#12	445	High	Verified
1951	Norway	female	#18	330	High	Verified
1950	Norway	female	#32	259	High	Verified
1949	Norway	female	#38	213	High	Verified
1948	Norway	female	#39	173	High	Verified
1947	Norway	female	#52	132	High	Verified
1946	Norway	female	#47	152	High	Verified
1945	Norway	female	#66	91	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2011, ranked in 62 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #2, first reached in 1955.

It held a top-100 place in 41 years, 41 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 811 births, registered in Norway in 1956.

1 registrar ranked it inside their own top 10.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2004, and 59 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Benson · #1363, 27y
Bent · #83, 56y
Benthe · #216, 25y
Bentley · #232, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Malin · #3, 60y
Isak · #4, 66y
Mette · #11, 65y
Joakim · #20, 58y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Andrew · #2, 79y
Bjørn · #2, 81y
Camilla · #2, 70y
Catherine · #2, 75y

Comparisons involving Bente

Existing comparison pages where Bente and another name were ranked in the same published list, in the same years, on the same scale. Each has its own evidence; none of them says the names are alike.

Longest shared records

Names ranked alongside Bente in the same published list across at least 25 years.

Bente vs Marie
In 1945 they stood at #66 and #73 in Norway · Girls, 7 places apart; by 2011 they were #568 and #24.
Bente · Marie · 61 shared years, 1945–2011 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2011 Norway ranking
Karen vs Bente
In 1945 they stood at #70 and #66 in Norway · Girls, 4 places apart; by 2011 they were #176 and #568.
Karen · Bente · 61 shared years, 1945–2011 · Started together, ended far apart
See the 2011 Norway ranking
Bente vs Vibeke
Bente and Vibeke changed places 13 times in Norway · Girls between 1945 and 2007, ending at #587 and #579.
Bente · Vibeke · 60 shared years, 1945–2007 · Repeatedly exchanged positions
See the 2007 Norway ranking

Order changes

Pairs where Bente and another name exchanged position in a published list, taken as the final meaningful change.

Hilde vs Bente
In 1963, Hilde moved ahead of Bente in Norway · Girls — #3 and #2 the year before became #2 and #8.
Hilde · Bente · 61 shared years, 1945–2011 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1963 Norway ranking
Heidi vs Bente
In 1968, Heidi moved ahead of Bente in Norway · Girls — #8 and #5 the year before became #3 and #8.
Heidi · Bente · 61 shared years, 1945–2011 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1968 Norway ranking
Bente vs Anita
In 1966, Anita moved ahead of Bente in Norway · Girls — #5 and #6 the year before became #5 and #4.
Bente · Anita · 61 shared years, 1945–2011 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1966 Norway ranking

Compared inside Norway lists

Pairs involving Bente measured in Norway's own published lists — the registrar that recorded Bente at its highest position.

Marianne vs Bente
In 1968, Marianne moved ahead of Bente in Norway · Girls — #6 and #5 the year before became #4 and #8.
Marianne · Bente · 61 shared years, 1945–2011 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1968 Norway ranking
Bente vs Nina
In 1963, Nina moved ahead of Bente in Norway · Girls — #2 and #6 the year before became #8 and #5.
Bente · Nina · 61 shared years, 1945–2011 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1963 Norway ranking
Hege vs Bente
In 1969, Hege moved ahead of Bente in Norway · Girls — #10 and #8 the year before became #7 and #11.
Hege · Bente · 60 shared years, 1945–2007 · One moved ahead of the other
See the 1969 Norway ranking

Norway overview→

Bente was ranked #2 in Norway · Girls in 1955. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Bente and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Bente without appearing here.

Bente moved ahead of

Grethe Compare
In 1996 they stood at #397 and #375 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #260 and #503.
Sissel Compare
In 1996 they stood at #397 and #317 in Norway · Girls; by 1997 that had become #260 and #360.
Wenche Compare
In 2006 they stood at #583 and #574 in Norway · Girls; by 2007 that had become #587 and #629.
Reidun Compare
In 2006 they stood at #589 and #577 in Norway · Girls; by 2007 that had become #587 and #621.

Moved ahead of Bente

Mila Compare
In 2010 they stood at #410 and #549 in Norway · Girls; by 2011 that had become #568 and #247.
Zara Compare
In 2005 they stood at #583 and #619 in Norway · Girls; by 2006 that had become #589 and #295.
Josephine Compare
In 2002 they stood at #443 and #621 in Norway · Girls; by 2003 that had become #583 and #329.
Elizabeth Compare
In 2006 they stood at #589 and #596 in Norway · Girls; by 2007 that had become #587 and #353.

Moved the opposite way to Bente

Ada Compare
Between 1945 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Bente went from #66 to #568 while Ada went from #229 to #60.
Alma Compare
Between 1945 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Bente went from #66 to #568 while Alma went from #293 to #38.
Anna Compare
Between 1945 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Bente went from #66 to #568 while Anna went from #38 to #9.
Elise Compare
Between 1945 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Bente went from #66 to #568 while Elise went from #223 to #29.

Moved the same way as Bente

Anita Compare
Between 1945 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Bente went from #66 to #568 and Anita from #162 to #325.
Ann Compare
Between 1945 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Bente went from #66 to #568 and Ann from #82 to #412.
Anne Compare
Between 1945 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Bente went from #66 to #568 and Anne from #1 to #100.
Annie Compare
Between 1945 and 2011 in Norway · Girls, Bente went from #66 to #568 and Annie from #180 to #358.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2011. Highest recorded position: #2 in Norway in 1962. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Bente

Bente at a glance

What stands out in Bente's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Bente by decade in Norway · Girls

Bente appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Bente

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Bente

Bente and the names beside it

Bente moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bente

Moved the opposite way to Bente

Moved the same way as Bente

Bente at a glance

What stands out in Bente's record

Bente by decade in Norway · Girls

Bente appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Comparisons involving Bente

Longest shared records

Order changes

Compared inside Norway lists

Names published alongside Bente

Bente and the names beside it

Bente moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Bente

Moved the opposite way to Bente

Moved the same way as Bente